Non-refillable bottle.



C.S.COHN.

. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLICATION men OCT. 6, 1915.

1,179, 1 64. Pate itefl Apr. 11, 1916.

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CHARLES sUsKINco N, orronrnann,onnsom.

NON-RE ILLA LE" TTLEQ ."S1iecification of Letters raten t, t nted 11,1916

Application filed October 6,1915. Serial No. 54,380. I

To allwhomz't may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES SUsKIN CoHN, a citizen of'the- United States-and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to bottles having means to prevent the refilling thereof, and more particularly the invention relates to novel valve means designed to automatically effect a closure of the bottle in any attempt to refill the same with the bottle in different angular positions.

The invention is distinguished also, by novel means to retain the valve devices in position in the bottle neck while permitting displacement thereof sufficiently to decant the contents as desired.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a bottle neck having my novel valve elements and valve retaining means; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the valve and valve retaining means, the view being taken at right angle to Fig. 1.

In constructing a practical embodiment of my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, the bottle neck 10 is given a formation at the interior to produce a tapering valve seat 11, there being a reversely flaring passage 12, below the said seat. At the lower end of the passage 12, the interior of the neck adjacent to the base, presents an undercut shoulder 13. The position of the valve seat is sufficiently below the top of the bottle neck to provide a cylindrical portion 14, to receive an ordinary cork.

Within the bottle neck is a valve 15, of inverted truncated cone shape, adapted to be received on the valve seat 11. Rigid with the valve 15, and depending centrally therefrom at the underside, is a valve stem 16, which is of suflicient length to extend, when the valve is seated, below the shoulder 13. At the lower end the valve stem 18, carries a transverse valve retaining bar 17 be formed of glass.

which is rockably mounted on the lower end of the said stem. It is to be unders tood that the complete-structure isadapted to In order to suspend the cross bar 17 the valve stem 16, is formed with side arms 18, at its lower end which are joined by a cross bar 19. The locking bar 17 is formed with an upstanding lug 20, having a transverse hole 21, therein, through which the cross bar 19, on the valve stem freely passes. The valve stem and the cross bar 17 are of a character to permit the elements to be formed from glass and connected in the manner shown during the process of manufacture.

On the valve stem 16, is an auxiliary valve 22, of inverted cone shape, said auxiliary valve having free movement on the valve stem relatively to the valve 15.

In practice, the bottleneck is formed complete from glass including the valve seat 11, passage 12, and shoulder 13. Also, the auxiliary valve 22, is fitted on the valve stem and the locking bar 17, secured in position. The valve and the appurtenances are then entered in the bottle neck, the bar 17, being swung on the bar 19, as indicated in dotted line position to permit the cross bar 17, to pass below the shoulder 13, whereupon the bar 17, will assume its transverse locking position. Thus the movementof the valve 15, and auxiliary valve 22, outwardly is permitted for the outflow of the bottle, cross bar 17 arresting the outward movement of the valve by contacting with the shoulder 13. If it be attempted tofill the bottle, the valve 15, will ordinarily act to constitute a closure but if the said valve 15 should be tampered with and maintained in the open position, the auxiliary valve 22, will be free to gravitate downwardly to the seat 11, beneath the valve 15; the valve 15 being of greater area than the valve 22, will overhang the same so as to act as a guard for the valve 22.

It is to be understood that I do not limit myself to any particular size of any part of the invention and that it may be adapted said bottle neck having a reversely tapered portion below the said tapered valve seat, upper and lower tapered valves adapted to engage said'seat, the lower end of the lower valve being accommodated in the said reversely tapered portion of the bottle neck when said valve is seated, a stem rigid with the upper valve and extending freely through the lower valve permitting rela- 10 tive movement of the valves and guiding the lower valve in its movements, and looking means on the stem below the lower valve.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 15 two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES SUSKIN COHN.

Witnesses:

CARRIE CoHN, LEE BOYER.

Copies at this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C." 

